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In this episode, Lama John begins reading from the “Actualising Special Insight” chapter of Kamalaśīla’s “Stages of Meditation.” After first talking about how it’s beneficial to practice shamatha and vipassana together, on a parallel track, he then talks about the meaning of the Tibetan word gak-cha, which refers to finding the object to be negated in e…